Of Auctions and Chickens

This page from the Hobart Gazette of April 4, 1919, carried an auction notice that suggests that William and Antonia Rossow were getting out of the farming business. I have seen later plat maps with Rossow acreage south of the streetcar line — maybe the Rossows would keep the land but let someone else farm it; on the other hand, it wouldn't be the first time a plat-mapmaker seemed confused.

And since it's time for people to plant their gardens, Dr. Clara Faulkner wants all those wandering chickens penned up.


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